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June 23, 2016

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Friday, June 24th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly, which was a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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June 23, 2016

Blind Date with a Book

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By Vaishnavi S.
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Picking your next read is always a struggle. If you ask us, there are too many books to choose from and not enough time to read them all. We recently asked our Teen Board Members how they narrow down their summer reading and Vaishnavi S., had an amazing suggestion. Her unique way of picking her next read is called "Blind Date with a Book" and it sounds like a blast. So if you're having trouble picking your next summer book, read on and play! 

Swami Sivananda

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

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Carol's 2016 Reads

Here you will find what we think is a complete listing of the books that Carol Fitzgerald, the president and co-founder of The Book Report Network, has read in 2016, along with their publication dates. Be sure to click on the title links to learn more about them. Carol has talked about many of these books in the openers of our Weekly Update newsletters, and some are Bookreporter.com Bets On selections, so we've included those links as well. Carol hopes you'll be inspired to add a few of these titles to your own reading lists!

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First In Line (20SR)

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First In Line TRC (300x250)

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The Honeymoon by Dinitia Smith

Dinitia Smith’s novel recounts George Eliot’s honeymoon in Venice in June 1880 following her marriage to a handsome young man 20 years her junior. When she agreed to marry John Walter Cross, Eliot was recovering from the death of George Henry Lewes, her beloved companion of 26 years. Eliot was bereft: left at the age of 60 to contemplate profound questions about her physical decline, her fading appeal and the prospect of loneliness. In her youth, Mary Ann Evans --- who would later be known as George Eliot --- was a country girl, considered too plain to marry, so she educated herself in order to secure a livelihood.

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—Booklist (starred review)

—Kirkus Reviews

—André Aciman, author of OUT OF EGYPT: A Memoir